The Daily Worker Newspaper, October 6, 1933, Page 5

RSET RI eee WH AT WORLD! By Michael Gold Sorrows of a Labor Faker 'D COLLINS is one of the big shots in the United Mine Workers’ Union, an organizer who has had his feet and snout in the miners’ treasury for decades, You know the type; they get to look like each other, these Jabor babbitts, They are usually big as elephants across the beam, from years of sitting down. They have big jowls, bellies padded out like ex- pense accounts, and deep bellowing voices filled with righteous indignation. T’ve seen many of the stripe, and I am sure I am describing Ed ac- curately. “Will somebody tell me if Ed Collins has his callouses not on his hands where they would be from labor, but on his elbows, from leaning on the bars of saloons? Does he wear -a big watchchain across his padded gut? Does his wife live-in a fashionable suburb? Is she now accepted in the best sceciety, by the wives ‘of bankers, police captains and high class gangsters? Do his kids go to the best private schools? Is his oldest boy the pride of i .-Harvard, maybe, and drive his own Cadillac bought him by his fond papa with miners’ blood-money? If I’m wrong, tell me. When Ed comes:from a big six-course meal at some conference in a hotel with the coal bésses, and is all puffed up with roast duck, cocktails, Corona cigar-smoke, and his own self-satisfaction, does he look in on some starving, pale miner with six hungry kids, and say patronizingly, “Well, Jin, it’s a little tough now, but we all gotta stick together?” * * . Saved by Nira ¢ BE wes én the skids just before Nira came in, The miners had begun to see through him at last. In his district they’d been hungry for years, and it finally got on their nerves to see his beefy smiling face around. Nobody had ever-seen.Ed organize anything. Nobody had ever heard of his missing a meal. Where did he get that swell car and those diamond rings? And why was the union shot all to hell? No, Ed.was surely on the skids. Aad“donn L, Lewis, his boss, was on. the skids, too, and all his thugs and jobholders couldn't help him, Ed had begun to worry about the future and to wonder whether he oughtn’t open a beer garden or even go to work somewhere. Then Nira came along and saved the whole racke- teering crew!. Jonn L. Lewis was given the coal mining concession by his chief, General Hughie (Conscription) Johnson, The word went down aicng the line, andiall the big, corn-fed organizers made whoopee. Ed Collins: was so delighted he bought his wife a diamond wrist watch and gave his henchmen a three-day booze party with some dizzy blondes in the William Penn Hotel. Easy come, easy go, had always been his motto. . . . The Strike UT Nira didn’t make good. It was true it got Ed back his check-off assessments, No miner could work without having deducted from his .pay check a rakeoff for Ed Collins and his family. Ed Collins had no iturther. Worries, buf. the miners had. To begin with, they had really gotten a.wage cut. after all the ballyhoo died down. They figured it out and went-on strike; demanding that the other codes be lived up to. It dooked bad-in the district run by Ed Collins. Some 50,000 men were olif and it got into all the papers. President Roosevelt heard of it, and oné f his secretaries told him how to handle it. It Was done with a technique first invented by the Prince of Wales. The President got Ed Collins on long-distance from Washington, aud said vibh a smile: isis the President of the United States.” “Yes, Mr, President,” Ed stuttered. % ‘Ed, Said the President, “I’ve heard about you from General John- Son; and Iknow you are with me, Ed, I am putting it all in one word; stop that’strike!” “]ar. President, I, promise you I'll stop it at once.” And Ed celled a meeting for that very night. He was thrilled to the cere. This was making history, all right; the President of the United States telephoning toa union organizer, a man who'd worked with pick and shovel and climbed from the ranks, Not only telephoning, but calling him by his first name, like a buddy. “And he said to me, said the President, ‘Ed, you must stop the strike’,” the red-faced sweaty hero bellowed to the miners’ meeting. He paused and expected something which didn’t come. The hall was silent. “And so men, there ig,ndthing else to do but call it off, is there?” It was then Ed got the shock of his life. He had always managed with the help of police, his own private thugs, labor spies and other assistants)to keep the miners quiet in the vestpocket where he carried them for*teliveryto whoever paid the price. But now they started to boo, They whistled and razzed him, and yelled, “You skunk, you sold us out in 1922 and you can’t do it again.” “But the President, the President—” the lardy racketeer pleaded. But the meeting broke up in confusion, after a unanimous vote to carry on with the strike. So Ed went home to bawl out his wife and to think up other ways and means of selling out the miners. Nira wasn’t doing all that was ex- pected of it, Ed reflected. Even though the President phoned and called him, “Ed,” those dumb miners insisted on more than that. They seemed to want ‘Teal groceries! ; Other Nira Notes RESIDENT GREEN of the A. F. of L. has been forced to warn Wash- ington that the workers will not be pleased by inflation, which is really nothing but a national wage-cut. The workers are also beginning to dislike this pricg-raising orgy that goes on amongst the profiteers, Under the proud flag of the Blue Eagle the respectable pirates. haye begun to rob millions of babies of milk, their proletarian mothers and fathers of food and clothing. And»Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbia University, has taken his accustomed place and now stands behind the President. In a speech the othe} day, Mr. Butler concedes that it is “heart-breaking” to see vast quantities of foodstuffs being destroyed while “human beings are crying aloud for. them,” yet we shall not be able to recover from the depression : until oug-system of distribution is balanced. “Restore confidence,” he declared, “and give us a balance between - production and consumption and the deed is done.” If Nira does not suc- ceed, warhed this educator, America will be forced into a dictatorship. -“Make fo“mistake about it, my fellow-Americans, we have been at a crossings of the ways, and the whole world has been there with us.” He ' then cited the examples of Russia, which turned to Communism, and Germany and Italy, which turned to Fascism. But Roosevelt, General Johnson and old Nickie Butler have never been accused of any sympathies for Communism. We are really being warned in advance ‘of what may happen if Nira doesn't go across— Fascism, But the liberal World Telegram is very indignant over the strike wave. “Ardent int its desire for justice for labor, this newspaper can yet hold no brief for those groups which will not let people work when they want to. ‘The present strike, chaos is sabotage of recovery.” . Spoken. like. a thoughtful and idealistic scab! editorial ‘writer to read his own financial columns. One item last week reported that real wages had gone down almost two percent during the month: of f,Auust he We would advise this URE ARREST WAS TUST REPORTED To CUR OFFICE IM FROM THE Lio. ‘ANO-' Negro Artists Play Big Part in Forum on Workers’ Dance NEW YORK.—The first of a series of Workers Dance League Forum re- eitals posing the question; “What Shall the Negro Dance About?” at- tracted a more than capacity audi- ence of colored and white people to the auditorium of the Y.W.C.A. on W. 138th St., last Sunday evening. There was an atmosphere of whole- hearted interest as the audience laid down their programs which an- !nounced, first, a group of dances by the prominent Negro dancer, Hemsley. Winfield, and his group, to a radio broadcast called “Red Lacquer and Jade”; second, Black and White Sol- idarity Dance by two members of the Workers Dance League, and, third, a forum on the question, “What Shall the Negro Dance About?” Seven dances were presented by Winfield, assisted by his Negro Bal- let. There was imagination and fan- tasy, emotional lucidity and restraint showing a fine feeling for the music. He always succeeded in projecting a definite mood. The second part of the program was a Black and White Solidarity Dance by two members of the Work- ers Dance League. The social theme struck a contrasting realistic note. With sure performance the Negro and white workers went through rhythmic movements depicting work, ‘speed-up, racial antagonism, then realization of class solidarity. The dance reached a dramatic climax when Negro and white workers join hands in a red front salute, The forum discussion on “What Shall the Negro Dance About?” was opened by Winfield, who expressed the opinion that all races, no matter what color, had fundamental human feelings and ideas to express in move- ment. “The Negro has primitive African ; material that he should never lose. The Negro has his work songs of the South which he alone can express. It’s hard for me to say what the Ne- gro should dance about. What has anyone to dance about?” After the cordial applause for Win- field, Add Bates, Negro member of the Workers Dance League, said that, “A young Negro should dance about the things that are vital to | There should be a militant direction there. There shouid be some fights.” The floor was thrown open to dis- cussion and some very interesting contributions were made by members of the audience, many of whom agreed on one point: “We have come to a newer type of dance,” said a representative young Negro girl, “a dance that has social significance. Since we recognized the Negro as an exploited race, our dance should ex- press the strivings of the new Negro. It should express our struggle for so- cial, economic and political equality and our part in the struggle against Winfield, who had been listening very intently to each speaker, in summing up the forum, said: “I have heard things tonight that have made me think.” The Workers Dance League 1s planning other recital forums in Harlem to further continue study and discussion on the themes of Negro dances, M. V. WHAT'S ON Friday nore) Workers School, classes begin this week, 200 W. 195th St. New York City. “WHO BURNT the aoaiad lecture by prominent I. L. D. speaker at Progressive Workers Culture Club, 159 Sumner Avenue, | Brooklyn, at 8.30 p.m. * SYMPOSIUM on “N.R.A. and Fascism.” Milton Howard will represent the Commu- nist Party. A Soclalist and 9 member of the National Recovery Board will be repre- sented. Tremont Workers Club, 1961 Pros- pect Avenue, Bronx, Ce SIRE, - BENSONHURST Branch No. 587. L.W.O., meeting at 2006 70th Street, Brooklyn, at 8 pm. All are invited. ae * . OPEN AIR Election Campaign Meeting, Lydig Avenue, corner Cruger or Holland Ave. Pelham Parkway Workers Club, 2179 White Plains Rd. Pee iti IMPORTANT Membership Meeting of the Red Spark A.C. at 813 Broadway, at 8.30 p.m, Absentees will be expelled. Bring your Daily Worker. lists. . * 8 OPPOSITION Group’ Local 2717, Carpen- ters’ Union, to hold tea and discussion at 608 Stone ‘Ave., Brooklyn, 8.90 p.m. En- tertainment, Benefit of ‘Red Press. _ 8 8 Saturday GRAND OPENING Dance and Entertain- ment, Cli-Grand Youth Club, 380 Grand Bt. at 8.30 p.m. Performance by Workers Thea- tre, New Dance Group. Swi Ce PRIVATE showing of Soviet Film and Lecture by Bonchi Freedman of F.8.U. at 38. 12th Bt, at 8.20. . Sunday Milwaukee, Wise. DANCE at Labor Hall, 64th St. and W. National on Sunday, Oct. 15, at 7.30 p.m. Good music, Waltz Contest. Adm. 20c. Aus- ices, West Allis Section C.P. Cami, N. J. “WHY the N.R.A. Must Pail and be pet Shall We Do?"? lecture by A. W. Mills, trict Organizer of the C.P. on Sunday, her Heat 440" pie at Workmen's clrote Hall, 718 S. bet areas, Newark, N. J. Be a4 WORKER Conference on Sunday, at 1 Peshine Are t 11am, All ations are to be ri ted. Promi- nent speakers will address the conference, THE ITL.O- (5 AN ORGANIZATION THAT DEFENDS WORKING CLASS PRISONERS — ITS LUCKY— DAILY WORKER, NEW YORK, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1933 NIGHT COURT 1 martin Bank IN FRONT, hanging behind judge's swivel chair, is an American flag draped like the wings of a but- | terfly. On the left, behind a cage, is a Tammany face (large and round as @ harvest moon) that rests on a stout uniformed body He is the holder of the tin box—in which the fines are kept. On the right, stands a hatchet- faced cop, an arrogant chin project- ed towgrd the assembled crowd. He guards the wide high door through which the prisoners appear. Attendants with silver badges on their civilian clothes bustle around. One carries papers, lists of Cases, which he places on the ‘judge’s desk. Another guards the gate that sepa- rates the crowd from the platform upon which the defendants stand. “Order In the Courtroom!” It is past nine o'clock, the hour for the judge’s arrival. The crowded court ‘waits, tensely eager for the judge's appearance. The judge is late again. At fifteen minutes past nine some one cries: “Order in the courtroom!” Everyone rises, quickly sits down again. #ipers flutter in the hands of clerks. The jud¢y is ready, and im- mediately the huge door on the right opens, The first defendant is hustled into the courtroom by a cop. The first prisoner is an old man, his back bowed. Every bit of seventy years has carved deep wrinkles on his face. The judge looks sternly through glasses that glint with light caught from the bright bulb above him, The Dignity of Fifth Ave. “So you're begging,” the judge be- gins, “Don’t you know it’s a crime to beg? And the way you do it! Wait- ing until the traffic stops on Fifth Avenue and then soliciting the autos. Why that’s intolerable. And we must stop the practice. Ten days in the work house!” ‘The crowd gasps. People mumble. The judge taps his gavel for order. The next prisoner is hurried into the courtroom. A young man carrying a satchel Stands before the judge. “Selling razor blades on 42d St. him, | Don’t you know that’s unlawful? Mer- chants pay high rents on that street. How can they compete with you fel- lows? How do you expect them to sell blades for five and ten cents and make profits. Furthermore, you have got to consider the dignity of 42d St. We can’t have you fellows lowering its dignity.” “But how else can I support my family? I have no job,” the defendant retorts. “That’s none of my business! Keep off that street and pay three dollars fine, or three days in jail.” The poor man goes to jail, “Guiding” the Youth _ ‘Two young boys enter—thugs with records of gun-toting and robbery. They had just been released from jail and were caught drunk the very day they were set free. “why don’t you boys go straight? Where is this life leading you? You both look like upright men. Get your- Selves jobs, be clean Ameri citi- zens. Obey our laws, learn thé whole- some way of living. Crime gets you nowhere. Now you come from Port- land, and you from Chicago. Get. out of New York. Do as you please else- where. But we have no use for you here. Now get out and don’t ever slet us see you around New York again.” They‘are permitted to leave, with the admonition to quit New York within three months. Drug Addicts Handcuffed to detectives, two young boys shuffle into the room. They are Boys who have also from out of jelusive jobs the N.R.A. prates about. They finally found work—selling | morphine. They were caught with hypodermic needles in their pockets. |One of them, slim and jerky-ner- vous, his face ghastly yellow, had become an addict himself. The judge stares at them, then writes something on a document. The night court does not handle such a case, It goes to a higher court where sentences are stiffer. And once in jail, thése boys, like hundreds of other similar prisoners before them, con- tinue in the traffic of drugs—this time aided by the keepers of the jail. A few more young men enter. The judge looks at them and shakes his head impotently. It's a problem he is reluctant to air in the courtroom. He Speaks in vague terms. Only of him. A Tammany Psychologist “Now why don’t you do something about it?” the judge implores the first one. “It's a disease,” the Judge utters in a tone of annoyance, “See a doctor about it. You are brought into this room month after. month. Get cured, will you? Lead a whole- some life. It's the newspapers’ fault. And the cheap theaters. All that talk about pansies and fags. That shouldn't be permitted. These are the things that bring about your condi- tion. See a doctor. Get cured. Keep away from that life.” The young man stands there like a frightened calf. He listens, but does not seem to understand. He is in an- other world. The judge’s words seemed to have gotten tangled some- slight | hints reach the people seated in front | the roamed the streets looking for those where, before they reached his brain. His eyes are like fire, blazing be- wilderedly in a room that is hostile, alien to him. A problem that should be put into the hands of expert men, a problem that needs the careful consideration of scientific men, problem that is insoluble without a fundamental change of environment —such a serious social problem is Tammany judge. “Now don’t forget to see a doctor,” the judge concludes. “And report to the probation officer every month for one year.” Thus is homo-sexuality “cured” in a New York night court, Now appear five defendants, all mén of middle age. There are three witnesses who stand on the other side of them, helping the prosecution. One is in overalls and is obviously a painter. Another witness is the super- intendent of the building in question. A painters’ strike had brought five pickets to this building. But scabs had been hired to defeat the strike. The pickets guarded the entrance and a fight soon began, a fight that was started by the superintendent at the behest of the landlord. All the evi- dence favors the pickets. But the judge thirfks otherw He finds the strikers guilty and fines each one $5. The workers pay their fine—add- ‘ing $25 more to the tin box. Naturally, strikers in a Tammany court get even harsher treatment than most defend- ants that appear there. It is getting late. If one has the time and patience, it is possible to stay until I~o’clock in the morning to see justice as it is handed out in a capitalist night court. By HAROLD EDGAR, Broadway Comedy Despite the anarchy of the Broad- way theatre, it seems to have its laws. One of the most indisputable of them permits a writer to treat al- most any theme if he can make it funhy. The first prominent anti-war play was a comedy, “What Price Glory?”; the first racket play was another comedy, “Broadway”; the first play to examine the movies was still another comedy, “Once in a Lifetime”; the most successful politi- cal play was a musical comedy, “Of Thee I Sing.” One might suppose from this that we were a nation of humorists, a jolly people, But Broadway comedy is & very special thing with a character all its own. True comedy uses the materials of experience as frankly, as boldly, as completely as any tragedy, “Don Quixote” is comedy, so are the plays of Moliere, the novels and plays of Gogol. All of them are close to life, increase our understanding of it, and are just as concerned with truth as are the great tragedies. But Broadway comedy eliminates the truth of every subject, in fact it re- moves the-subject altogether. So that the audience which applauds ‘the comic anti-war play is composed of the same people who were “patriotic” during the war, and will be again; the audience which howls with glee over “Of Thee I Sing” are Democrats whose laughter would turn sour if ‘a really revolutionary idea were sug- gested to them by the show. And the audience which proved its superiority by laughing over the absurdity of the movie industry in “Once In a Life- time” is the audience which supports Hollywood. Crack a joke, pull a gag, do a tap, turn & somersault apropos of any sub- TONIGHT’S PROGRAMS WEAF—660 Ke. ffl 7:00 P. M,—Charlie Leland, Comedian; Jessica Dragonette, Soprano; Cavaliers Quartet; Grantland Rice—Football Talk 9:00—Fred Allen, Comedian; Grofe Orch. 30—Lee Wiley, Songs; Young Orch. 10:00—First Nighter Drama 10:30—Lum and Abner 12:00—Ralph Kirbery, Songs 12:05 A. M.—Sosnick Orch. 12:30—Molina Orch. WOR—710 Ke. 7:00 P. M.—Sports—Ford Frick 1:15—The ‘Almost Perfect Orime—Sketch 30—Terry and Ted—Sketch '45—News—Gabriel Heater 00—Detectives Black and Blue—Mystery Drama 8:15—Billy Jones and ‘inte ,Hare, Songs 8:30—Dramatized New: 8:45—Willle Robyn, ‘Tenor; Marle Gererd, Soprano 00—Variety Musicale Helene Daniels, Songs 10:15—Current Events—Harlan Eugene Read 10:30—Keene Orch.; Grenadiers Quartet; Walter Ahrens, Baritone; Harry Breuer, Xylophone; Verna Osboine, Soprano 11:00—Time; Weather 11:02—Moondeams Trio 11:80—Denny Oroh. 12:00—Seott! Orch . WJZ—760 Ke M.—Amos 'n’ Andy ' 7:00 P, 7:15—Treasure Island—Sketch 7:30—String Bymphony, Frank Black, Con- ductor 7:45—Irene Rich—Talk 8:00—Walter O'Keefe, Comedian; Shutta, Songs; Bestor Orch. 8:30—Potash and Perlmutter—Sketch 8:45—Red Davis—Sketch 9:00—Leah Ray, Songs; Harris. Orch. 9:30—Phil Baker; Comedian; Shield Orch.; Male Quartet; Neil Sisters, Songs | 10:00—U. 3. Army Band 10:30—Marid Cozzi, Baritone; Conccrt Oreh. 10:45—Headline Hunter—Floyd Gibbons 11:00—Jesters Trio 11:15—The Harvest Moon—Professor Robert H, Baker, Harvard Observatory 11:30—Childs ' Orch. 12:00—Calloway Orch. 12:80 A, M.—Lowe. Orch, Ethel WABC—860 Ke. 7:00 P, M.—Myrt and Marge 7:15—Just Plain Bill—Sketch 7:30—Travellers Ensemble 1:45—News—Boake Carter 8:00—Green Orch.; Men About Town Trio; Harriet Lee, Contralto 8:15—News—Edwin ©. Hill 8:30—Spitalny Orch.; Ethel Pastor, prano; Nicolini Cosentino, ‘Tenor 9:00—Irving 8. Cobb, Stories; Goodman Orch. 9:15—-Tommy McLaughlin, telanet? Orch. 9:30—All-American Christy Wal Griffith, Chairmsa, legiage Conference So- Baritone; Kos- Football Show, with Speaker, Major John L. Big Ten Intercel- 10:09-—-Of%en and Johnson, Comedians Sos- nick Orch. 10;30—Alexender Woollectt, ‘Tewn Crier 10:45-——Symphony Orch, ' 11:18—News Bulletins 11.30—Jones Oren. :09—"ombardo Orch, 0 A. M.—Polasco Orch. :00—Hopkins Orch, The World of the Theatre ject: everyone will laugh and the sub- ject will not have been touched, and what is more important, the audience will not have been touched by the subject. The fun is never built upon the truth of these themes—which is a legitimate and mature process—but is always beside it—a juvenile means of escape. The comedy of these plays is the equivalent of that of the wise- cracker who can break up any con- versation by a remark entirely irrel- evant to it. Thought, experience, knowledge, understanding, are un- necessary for the appreciation of these plays. They substitute slap- stick, high-jinks, puns, acrobatic stunts. This is the cream of travelling salesman comedy, a comedy which contains no element of contact be- tween the comedian who cracks the joke and the object about which the joke is cracked, and no real contact either between the person who hears the joke and the one who makes it. Most representative of this type of comedy at its best are Marx brothers who begin and end their fun-making without a subject, and reduce every- thing to sheer nonsense. They sym- bolize the big-city middleman always glibly selling something he has no respect for to someone who has .no need of it. The sum total of such comedy in human content is zero. Two plays produced recently ex- emplify this tendency of Broadway comedy in different ways; “Kultur,” at the Mansfield Theatre, and “Sailor Beware,” at the Lyceum, “Kultur” has been called a “propaganda play” by some of the dailies, but it is ad- vertised as “the most amusing play in town.” Here is a play that is pre- sumably a satire on the anti-Semitic aspect of Hitlerism and the whole af- fair is brought down to a few senti- mental jokes about the chancellor's life being saved by a Teuton giant of purest Aryan blood who turns out to be a converted Jew. The whole agony of the situation is set aside, its so- cial and human connotations never enter into the question at all, and a few foolish laughs are the end of the whole matter. But this play is so primitive and | guileless in writing and production ! that it becomes fairly harmless. But plays like “Sailor Beware” which get good notices, make money, and are finally distributed through the movies, are more injurious than they seem. The play is supposed to be a “Ra- belaisian comedy” about the occu- pations of U. 8. navy sailors in peace time, in other words, about the sex exploits of the gobs. Rabelaisian in- deed! Rabelais was a great writer, a man of learning, a true satirist, a rebel. “Sailor Beware” is a collection of cigar-store jokes, only less cbscene and less funny than those one might hear in a cigar-store; its figures are not comic characters but simply for each other's come- backs; its atmosphere removed from any reality whatsoever. Its rowdiness has no virility in it, its lustiness has no sex, its bawdiness is just “nice clean dirt.” (Otherwise it might of- fend the customers!) And finally it has less to do with the U. S. Navy than a barber shop, Every ingredient of the play is a sham; so that a yough comedy about sailors is nothing more than a frolic of undeveloped high-school -boys, ngerously inno- an audience that as comedy know ap yeting the world in which it li ever grow meture? A theatre such as | this seems to have no other purpose but to perpetuate imbecility. | Help improve the “De'ly Worker." | send in yaur suggestions and criticism: Let us know what the workers Ip your shop think about the “Daily.” “Have You Ever Heard of Frame-Uns?” YOU MEAN YOUVE WEVER HEARD OF THE INTERNATIONAL LABOR DEFENSE ? WE HAVE A BRANCH HHERE BECAUSE You f SURE NEED OUR SUPPORT TO FREE YOu FROM THE CHARGES PASTED AGAINST YOu / AW WHAT CAN THEY po to mF IM wwNOCENT - OF FRAME-UPS? TO CLOONEY FOR by QIieT” AVE YOu EVER HEARD NSTANCE? al handled by the beefy brain of a) cont and unbelievebiy ignorant. Can | lishes such stuff | at all about | ves? Can it | | | | “Will the N.R.A. Bring Prosperi | | Lecture by Phil Bart, of the Daily Worker, 1 by ‘the Lawr | Emery Br. LL.D. at 2479 65th 8t., Brooklyn. Max Bedackt, Central Comm, Com- || THE STRUGGLE AGAINST WAR, published by the American Cor mittee for Struggle Against War, 104 Fifth Ave., New York City. Vol. 1, No. 4, Oct., 1933. 3 cents. By LOUIS COLMAN In spite of its unfortunately lon; winded name, this is a very real, ve! live, up-to-the-minute and militant magazine. It is of special importance that at this moment when the im- perialist war preparations and the preparations for intervention against the U.S.S.R. are reaching such co- Jossal proportions, when war is ac- tually raging on many fronts, ¢ when the need for greater m: tion against imperi creasing in proportion ist war i a magazine | devoted to this struggle should ap- Pear. | In its twelve large pages this re- | view, published to coincide with the | Anti-War Congress, covers a wide field of anti-war activity, and gives a large amount of information on | wars and on war preparations the | world over. | Of special interest is the list of ac- tions by workers in the past 25 years which hindered or prevented entire-| ly, imperialist wars. Cuba and Amer- ican intervention, Fascism, N.R.A. as | a@ war measure, the Soviet fight for | peace and against intervention, and the international, organized, and | militant struggle against war on the international front are brought for- ward in special articles. An omission in this magazine which is particularly grave for an anti-war paper published in the United States is a discussion of the role of American imperialism in its Oppression of the Negro people, as well as the importance of the Negro masses in the struggle against war. | American imperialism has declared war against the Negro nation. It is carrying on this war with, murder, economic oppression, and all the regular and guerilla armed forces of the white ruling class oppressors to prevent the rising tide of struggle of the Negro people and the white work- ers for the right of self-determina- tion in the Black Belt. This war is going on in the United States at this moment. Negroes are killed daily by the white ruling class armed forces. White workers are mur- dered because they fight in this revo- lutionary cause (T. E. Barlow in Fort Worth, murdered by police in jail). But in this magazine, devoted to militant struggle against war, pub- lished in the United States, this im- perialist war and even the word “Ne- gro” is not mentioned once, Correction A serious error occurred in the second and concluding in- stallment of Ben Gold’s life! story, which appeared on this page yesterday. One sentence read: “Gold was not then and, is | | not now a member of the Com- | munist Party.” Ben Gold has been a member | | of the Communist Party since | the split in the Jewish Federa- | tion in 1921, | CITY AFFAIRS} BEING HELD FOR THE | BENEFIT OF THE OCT. 6th: | munist Party, will lecture on “Hitler || ermany,” at After 9 Months in Brownsvillg Youth nter, 105 That- ford Avenue, Brooklyn. “Will the N.R.A, Bring Prosperity?” lecture by Carl Reeve, of the Daily Worker, given by the Ella May Br. LL.D. at 4109 isth Avenue, Brooklyn. Concert and Party given by Unit 11 Sect. 2 at 126 E. 27th St., N.¥.C. Concert and Party given by Units 402 and 404 at 350 E. glst St., N,¥.C. Movie Showing of the “Land of Le- nin” and “Struggle for Bread,” at || the Workers Center of Washtngton J) Heights, 501 W. 16ist St., N.Y.C. |! John Adams, of the Dally Worker, }| will speak | | OCT, 7th: | | i | | Party and Entertainment given by Unit 9 Bronx, 5 at 758 Kelley St., Apt. 5E. Concert and Dznce given by the Nat Turner Br. LL.D. at 459 E. 17st Bronx. OCT. 8th: Concert by it Mandolin Or- chestra, John Olub Artist, given by Richmond Hill Unit C. P. at 1426 Lefferts Bivd Bronx Section of the LL.D. will hold A. Bring | | mt Ave, seph Field, || speak. "| given by the Wo- me of D:aphin, unny: Concert, John Py : Auspices: THE HARL Featuring: \'as the star. | Dhaper and Larry Adler. | RKO CAMEO . FALL CONCERT and DANCE LIBERATOR CHORUS LIBERATOR ORCHESTRA Under Direction of Jazz Johnson Monday, October 9th, 1933 at 9 P. M. RENAISSANCE BALLROOM, 138th St., near 7th Ave, Page Five Stage and Screen “Her Man of Wax” Opens at Shubert Next Wednesday; “Virtue on Horseback” Oct. 16 “Her Man of Wax,” adopted from the German of Walter’ Hasenclever is announced at the Shubert Theatre, with Lenore Ulric The comedy is di as an ironic satire with as the chief character. It was pre- sented in Berlin several years ago with Werner Krauss in the leading role. Others in the cast include Lloyd Corrigan, Moroni Olsen, Louis Kirtland and Raymond Bramley. The production is having a try-out en- gagement in Washington this week. A. H. Woods’ first production of the season, “Virtue on Horseback,” a comedy by Daniel N. Rubin, with Fay Bainter as its star, will open at the Playhouse on Monday, Oct. 16. Other players are Ernest Glendin- ning, Ben Smith, Hugh Cameron and Harland Tucker. by Julian Thompson, Will Rogers In “Dr. Bull” At Radio City Music Hall “Doctor Bull,” a Fox picture star- ring Will Rogers, is the new screen feature at the Radio City Music Hall, Marion Nixon, Ralph Morgan, Louise Dressler and Andy Devine play im- portant roles. The stage show arranged by Roxy includes “Revue de la Danse,” a dance cycle in eleven scenes with Harry ; Losse, Minor and Root, Patricia Bow- man, Lea and Stuart and Hua- pala Mader in leading roles. Others on the bill include Alice Dawn, Paul The over- ture will be “Potpourri Italien,” with Viola Philo, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor.and Douglas Btanbury, baritone. Boston Art Exhibit by the John Reed Club Will Open Oct. 15 BOSTON.—An exhibition of paint- ings, lithographs and etchings by members of the John Reed Clubs of the United States, as well as by other artists, will be held here from Oc- tober 15 through October 31, under the auspices of the local John Reed Olub. The works will be exhibited in the gallery of the “Twentieth eee Club,” 3 Joy Street, Beacon A series of special evening events has been prepared in conjunction with the exhibit. These will include talks by Henri Barbusse and others, Round Table discussions, dance re- Citals, ete. Pates will be announced later. Admission to the exhibition will be free, Amusements THE THEATRE GUILD presents EUG) O'NEILL’s NEW PLAY “AH, WILDERNESS!” with GEORGE M. COHAN JOE COOK in HOLD. YOUR HORSES A Musical Runaway in 24 Scenes Winter Garden "rr. ssn wen, Th lay and Saturday 3rd and Last Week “Greatest of all Soviet sound films’ —Daily Worker. “The i Patriots” A Gorki conception (English Titles) and “Moscow Athletes On Parade” Acme Theatre lith Street and Union = Square RKO Jefferson 1h St & | Now ANITA PAGE and ALAN DINEHART in “I HAVE LIVED” also “THE ID NOEL FRAN ‘ORTANT WITNESS” with nd DOROTRY BURGESS RADIO CITY MUSIC HALL- SHOW PLACE of the NATION Direction “Roxy” Opens 11:30 A.M, WILL ROGERS, in “DR. BULL” and a great “Roxy” stage show 35 to 1 p.m.—b5e to 6 (Ex. Sat. & Sun.) —— RKO Greater Show Season ——— | ‘Lilian Harvey in “MY WEAKNESS” Popular Price Biway at 42d St. CAPITAL THEATRE — MC KEESPORT, PA. — Soviet Russia’s Greatest Film “ROAD TO LIFE” Also: “TOM MOONEY”. SUNDAY, OCTOBER &th at 2 and 4 P. M. Sponsored by the McKeesport Br., I, L. D.—Proceeds for Tom Mooney and Scottsboro Defense 562 EET LITTLE” NEWARK, NJ. Now Playing! First All Yiddish Talkie Made in Soviet Russia “THE RETURN OF = NATHAN BECKER” — English Dialogue Titles — Continuous Daily & Sunday 1 to 11 P. M—POPULAR PRICES The EM LIBERATOR SUBSCRIPTION 50 CENTS r